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Show Mrs. JaM.a ard Howe has beer, writing poetry for nearly 60 years. Although Al-though this remarkable woman hai passed her seventy-fifth year, she ha the presence, the demeanor, the expres sion, the voice and the step of 50. She has a handsome face, is in vigorona health, gives heed to the art of dresv and is far more lively than are most women at her time of life. She is th mother besides of Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott and the late Mrs. Julia Anagnos, each of whom is well known in the world of letters. Mrs. Howe is also the sister of Marion Crawford's Craw-ford's mother quite a galaxy of talent to be related to by immediate ties of blood, not to mention the late Sam Ward, epicure, and Beau Ward McAllister. McAl-lister. It was of Mrs. Howe, by the way, that Oliver Wendell Holmes happily hap-pily remarked on her seventieth birth' iay. "She is 70 years young. " Two friends, a weaver and & tailor, became in time enemies, so much so that the tailor spoke much evil of the weaver behind his back, though the weaver always spoke well of the tailor. Upon a lady asking the weaver why he always spoke bo well of the tailor, who ipoke so ill of him, he replied, "Madam, "Mad-am, we are both liars. ""Humor of |